Speaking of favorites, I watched “Restless” last Saturday and absolutely loved it – sensitive, delicate, with nice dialogs, moving without being sappy. Just beautiful. If Gus Van Sant continues to make movies like this I might forget he was responsible for “Finding Forrester” and “Good Will Hunting”. Might. :)

Start by making the cake: preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F. Butter and flour a 32.5x22.5x5cm (13x9x2-in) metal baking pan. Sift flour, baking soda, and baking powder into a medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat the sugar and butter in large bowl until blended and smooth. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then orange zest and vanilla extract. Mix in flour mixture in 4 additions alternately with yogurt in 3 additions. Mix in orange juice. Spread the batter in the prepared pan and smooth the top.
Bake cake 50-60 minutes or until risen and golden and a skewer inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool completely in the pan over a wire rack.
Make the icing: sift icing sugar into a small bowl, add the juice gradually and mix until desired consistency. Drizzle over the cake*.
Cake can be kept in an airtight container, at room temperature for up to 2 days.

* I made the exact recipe above using a 20x30cm (8x12in) metal baking pan; since the pan has a removable bottom, I unmolded the cake before drizzling it with the icing

11 comments:

I don't think it is possible that I could love this more than your lime cake, but I'll certainly give it a try (a side-by-side taste test might be in order...like I need an excuse to make these cakes). Sounds delicious...sometimes simple is best. Give me citrus any day over chocolate!!!!!

Am really glad that you post another citrus cake. really enticing. I just bake one last night using the recipe that you posted on Monday, March 1, 2010. That orange cake is delicious. So far I've tried 2 recipes from your blog and all of them were successfully baked and eaten (only thing is that I somehow reduced the sugar by 10 to 20gm less)

I found that a simple cake is more delicious, as this kind of cake has a kind of home tasting, well, it's homemade, but you can feel it in your mouth, in your nose...it has the taste of the cakes we used to eat at grandma's